Over most of human history — 150,000 years or so — the population growth rate has hovered at near zero. Yet, when we study the contemporary populations that are our best analogs for the past, they ...

Growing up in the Bald Hills of northern York County’s Conewago Township, I definitely felt like I lived in rural Pennsylvania. I considered the Jamesway in Etters “the mall.” Heck, we couldn’t even ...

Closer home, India’s population will continue to grow briefly from its current 1.5 billion to 1.7 billion, and then drop back to 1.5 billion by 2100—leaving the population unchanged after a 75-year ...

Explaining why 600 people a day moved to the Sunshine State, the late Florida Senate President Jim King used to say, “Florida is the land of milk and honey.” The axiom still applies: In December the U ...

IT IS astonishing how many demons get stirred up whenever you mention population – and sometimes even when you don’t. This magazine recently examined how modern economies predicated on growth are ...